{"id":189916,"date":"2019-03-26T18:23:44","date_gmt":"2019-03-26T10:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thehoneycombers.com\/singapore\/?p=189916"},"modified":"2022-08-23T16:03:00","modified_gmt":"2022-08-23T08:03:00","slug":"professor-brian-cox-interview-universal-world-tour-singapore-meaning-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thehoneycombers.com\/singapore\/professor-brian-cox-interview-universal-world-tour-singapore-meaning-of-life\/","title":{"rendered":"The only interesting question is, what does it mean to live a small, fragile and finite life in an infinite universe?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Unless you\u2019ve been hanging out in a black hole, you\u2019ll know of Professor Brian Cox<\/a>: you\u2019ll have watched one of his TED talks, read one of his books, binge-watched one of his BBC TV series, or even caught one of his live shows around the world. He\u2019s the British physicist hailed for his ability to distill complex ideas about space, big science and natural wonders here on Earth, and make you feel more in awe of your existence than you ever expected.<\/p>\n

Sure he\u2019s a professor in physics at the University of Manchester, and was a researcher for the ambitious ATLAS experiment with the Large Hadron Collider (otherwise known as the world\u2019s largest atom smasher). But he\u2019ll just as happily use his knowledge to weigh in on the possibility of time travel in the world of Dr Who, and make time to share his wisdom with the young and the curious. We witnessed him answering \u201csuperb questions\u201d from a young crowd \u2013 kids, if you want to know what happens if you do hang out in a black hole, Cox doesn\u2019t shy from the truth: \u201cYou get stretched a lot and utterly come to bits.\u201d<\/p>\n

After experiencing just the tip of the iceberg of his upcoming show in Singapore, know this: your mind will<\/em> get a workout, but this isn\u2019t about bringing you further out of your depth than you can handle. You\u2019ll delve into out-of-this world imagery, ponder the most beautiful things about our planet and the potential for life outside Earth \u2013 and you\u2019ll be challenged to think about just how rare we are. Deep stuff to take in, but you aren\u2019t going just to look at pretty pictures from the Hubble Telescope \u2013 although they are<\/em> spectacular.<\/p>\n

In the surreal scene of Singapore Science Centre\u2019s empty Omni-Theatre, we dove into conversation, starting with the rather angsty and forthright topic of \u2018what is the meaning of it all\u2019?<\/p>\n

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Photography: Lateral Events<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As a scientist, where do you find the sublime?<\/h3>\n

That\u2019s the foundation of this show, actually. It may be an exaggeration, but I think the only interesting question is, \u2018What does it mean to live a small, fragile and finite life in an infinite universe?\u2019 What the show does is give an insight into the size and scale of the universe \u2013 and how physically insignificant we are in that universe. But also, I argue that as an intelligent civilisation, we may be quite rare in the universe \u2013 and therefore valuable.<\/p>\n

There are two ideas there that intersect at right angles and jar with one another if you\u2019re going to be intellectual about it, and they seem to be irreconcilable. But I think it’s in the consideration of irreconcilable ideas you find the sublime. At the start of the show, we share a quote from physicist Richard Feynman \u2013 which is one of my favourites:<\/p>\n

What, then, is the meaning of it all? What can we say to dispel the mystery of existence? If we take everything into account, not only what the ancients knew, but all of what we know today that they didn\u2019t know, then I think that we must frankly admit that we do not know. But, in admitting this, we have probably found the open channel.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What is the meaning of it all? Part of what the show does is to consider this: if our lives are finite, on a universal scale, they don\u2019t make any impact at all. But I argue that meaning exists because<\/em> we exist. I don\u2019t think there\u2019s any such thing as \u2018global meaning\u2019 \u2013 I think that meaning is local and emergent and temporary. But, let\u2019s say that in the Milky Way Galaxy, Earth is the only planet with a civilisation on it \u2013 which is quite possible. I\u2019d argue that from a biological perspective, that means that this planet is the only place where meaning exists in the Milky Way. And that, for me, is sublime.<\/p>\n

Your shows leave people with the feeling that we are at once so minute, and yet glorious for just existing\u2026<\/h3>\n

I think that we are extremely valuable. And I think that in coming to terms with the fact that our lives are small and finite in both space and time, that\u2019s where you find the sublime. If there\u2019s any such thing as the meaning of life, it\u2019s coming to accept that. In my view, the laws of nature force us to accept that we cannot be immortal.<\/p>\n

What do you think of free will? If we\u2019re all just particles \u2013 albeit exquisite particles \u2013 interacting, are we all just at the mercy of these interactions?<\/h3>\n

There is no room for it in physics as we understand it. It\u2019s deterministic, which means that given the state of the universe, at any point in time, you can in principle predict what a system is going to do in the past and what it\u2019s going to do in the future. That\u2019s just the way it is. Actually, there\u2019s quite a lot of general relativity in the show and discussions of space-time and Einstein\u2019s theory of relativity that all events that have happened and will happen are just there<\/em>. We\u2019re just a sequence of events that make up our lives.<\/p>\n

How much time have we got left to enjoy the spoils of Earth? Are we heading towards Total Recall, where we\u2019re mining Mars?<\/h3>\n

If you look at the exploration of space at the moment, I do think we\u2019re going to be on Mars in my lifetime. We\u2019re not going to relocate there. I was talking to Jeff Bezos and he has a lovely series of soundbites about why he\u2019s got a rocket company, and one of them was that one of the things we\u2019ve discovered in our exploration of space is that this planet is the best one. It\u2019s very true: we\u2019ve evolved on it, it fits us very well and there is nowhere as nice as this. In order to take care of it, if you\u2019re pragmatic about it, you need to access resources elsewhere because we don\u2019t want to keep digging this one up. Bezos says he would love to see the Earth as zoned residential.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ll probably be mining asteroids first, but yes I think we are heading in that direction of mining Mars. I went to some space mining companies in the West Coast of the US and they\u2019re really serious \u2013 all they need is the infrastructure to get there. Bezos is quite eloquent and expressive about it. He said that in order to build Amazon he needed the internet and the postal service, which were two pre-existing pieces of infrastructure. He wants the entrepreneurs of this century to be able to operate in space \u2013 and is going to give them the infrastructure. I wouldn\u2019t bet against him, because he\u2019s got the means!<\/p>\n

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A sneak peek of Professor Brian Cox’s live show, coming to Singapore on 8 June. Photography: Science Centre Singapore.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

How much do sci-fi television shows and movies play a role in bringing the concepts of big science to life and keeping people curious?<\/h3>\n

It played a big role for me when I was growing up: I couldn\u2019t tell the difference really between science fiction and science fact when I was six or seven years old, watching Star Wars. The thing I like about science fiction is that it allows your mind to wander in a way that no other form does. Christopher Nolan\u2019s film Interstellar is a brilliant example because Kip Thorne, who received the Nobel Prize and I believe is one of the greatest living physicists, had a lot to do with that film. It\u2019s a beautiful demonstration of relativity. Everything in it is calculated and right \u2013 until the end, where it gets very speculative. That\u2019s why I approached the graphics company that worked on Interstellar to use the code that was developed to visualise the black hole that\u2019s a centrepiece of this show. It\u2019s not an artist\u2019s impression; it\u2019s a simulation.<\/p>\n

Is there one question you want science to answer in your lifetime?<\/h3>\n

I would love to know about life in the universe. How common is life? We don\u2019t know. But most of the biologists I talk to (and I talk to them a lot because I find them interesting) have the general sense that there\u2019s an inevitability about the origin of life, given the right conditions. Life on Earth emerged as soon as it could, 3.8 or four billion years ago as soon as the ocean formed. If that inevitability is true, then Mars should have life \u2013 or should have had life \u2013 because Mars is pretty much identical to the Earth four billion years ago. We know Mars had oceans. We know it was geologically active. So I would like to find evidence that life existed, or perhaps still exists on Mars. And that\u2019s something that could happen in the next 10 or 20 years.<\/p>\n

How do you want people to come away from your show feeling? What do you want to challenge them to think about?<\/h3>\n

The show starts with that great Richard Feynman quote that asks, \u2018what is the meaning of it all\u2019? It\u2019s not a question that\u2019s often considered within the domain of science \u2013 it\u2019s a personal question. But what science can do is provide a framework in which you can better approach that question for yourself. Science does tell you where you are in the universe, when we are in the universe and how we came to be here \u2013 which are prerequisites if you\u2019re going to explore such deeper questions. In my view, we\u2019ve discovered that this place \u2013 Earth \u2013 is extremely rare. If, as I think, that meaning is an emergent prophecy, the universe means nothing without life. And there might be very few places where there\u2019s complex life, and therefore very few places where meaning exists. This is one of them.<\/p>\n

I want people to come away thinking what a valuable place Earth is.<\/p>\n

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Professor Brian Cox at Wembley Arena. Photography: Lateral Events.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Professor Brian Cox will be at Star Performing Arts Centre on 8 June 2019. Tickets start from $90. Pssst: book your tickets<\/a> before 1 April for 10% off the ticket price!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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